Posts Tagged: Cider and Perry

It's a concern if this recent report is anything to go by: • In the last four weeks, he added, the largest four BA-defined craft suppliers — Yuengling, Boston Beer, Sierra Nevada, and New Belgium — were down a combined 4 percent. “I don’t think IRI has Yuengling in their craft, but the other …

I had lost this book. I found it again yesterday. The precursors of Jacques Cartier, 1497-1534: a collection of documents relating to the early history of the Dominion of Canada. Notice that it is a book published under the authority of the Canadian Federal Minister of Agriculture published by the …

e are half a decade into... the decade. The twenty-tens. Time to reflect and to reflect on a longer time span than the annual keek. Have their been arcs to trace? Have past achievements been already lost? That's what the Platinum Pint awards are for. To think about what we have received to this …

The All About Beer column by John Holl posted today begins "[h]ard cider continues to climb in popularity and now the largest producer in the country, Angry Orchard, has its own place to welcome customers...." This is odd because of the following news as reported by The Motley Fool a few weeks ago …

It's not often that I am jealous of others. I am a pretty happy guy. But when the tweets start flying around someone at noon each Friday I find myself seated at the office desk, hard soled tight laced dress shoes working on my plates of meat... and I wonder what placed in at this place, in this …

Sunday morning after the week of the four extra nieces. I have good nieces so my complaint is muted but still... seven kids is a large number on the kids scale. I am left more fractured than usual. So some short notes: • -> Over at Jeff's I suggested that the allegations about over priced arena …

Saturday afternoon after a morning of 1250 first draft words on Ontario's brewing heritage in the 1950's and 60's. What better reason to pop open a couple of very different examples of what perry can be. I have to admit, perry is one of those things I can daydream about. Like an Ürziger Würzgarten …

It is a phenomenally lazy Sunday. Late up, raced for church, lunch, nap and TV shows you only watch when it's drizzling. British shows you had never heard of which were cancelled after short runs four or five years ago. A day to watch sports that you are only half interested on the rec room TV as …

This came in the mail yesterday. Within an hour I was thinking of how I should go clean a carboy, buy some apples and smash them to squeeze the life out of them and pitch some yeast in it. • The next thing I thought was "oh, my... cider porn." Never encountered cider porn before but, then again …

I wonder what to make of cider. I like it a lot but the sequence of flavours differs from beer and wine. More top to bottom layers than tight chronological in order. Not sure why I think that is the case. But I do. Still, who cares when it is this tasty? • Bought this at Oliver's in Albany for …

Alan is apparently a Gen X-er who has hit 40... err...44... err... 45... YIKES... 46 ... [ZOW-WEE!!] 48... jessh, now 51... and edits and writes about other stuff at his personal website Gen X at 40. Please email Alan or any of the authors at this blog's gmail account - please write if you want to join the ranks of authors of this site or just want to send in a story on your favorite beer or photo of your regular pub.

I have moved the content of the OCB Commentary Wiki here. It is now a static document and pretty much is locked in as understandings existed as of 2012. Probably needs its own wiki to update the content! Below are the original introductory remarks:

"The purpose of this wiki is to collectively make comments, add annotation, identify errata and suggest further sources to the text of The Oxford Companion to Beer. Members are asked to avoid comment about the authors, the structure of the text or other extraneous matters. This wiki is a not for profit project that reviews the text pursuant to the concept of "fair dealing for the purpose of criticism or review" under Canadian copyright law." Alan McLeod, wiki Organizer, and chief bottle washer at A Good Beer Blog. Motto? "Many hands make pleasant work." Alan McLeod, 25 October 2011. Please provide some information about yourself when making a request to join the wiki. Anonymous requests for membership will not be approved. Overly ardent and rudely put claims to authority will be cause for removal from the membership. As of 11 January 2012, 134 entries or 12.2% of the total of 1,100 received commentary, many with multiple comments. Eight of the photos have been corrected as well. That number rose to 151 by 13 May 2012.